What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you becoming baffled? We surely are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...